Description

When the Node.js policy feature checks the integrity of a resource against a trusted manifest, the application can intercept the operation and return a forged checksum to the node's policy implementation, thus effectively disabling the integrity check.
Impacts:
This vulnerability affects all users using the experimental policy mechanism in all active release lines: 18.x and, 20.x.
Please note that at the time this CVE was issued, the policy mechanism is an experimental feature of Node.js.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2023-38552

CVSS Base Severity: LOW

CVSS Base Score: 0.0

Affected Products

Vendor: Node.js

Product: Node.js

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 1.53% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 86.92% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-02-03 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://hackerone.com/reports/2094235
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/E72T67UPDRXHIDLO3OROR25YAMN4GGW5/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/X6QXN4ORIVF6XBW4WWFE7VNPVC74S45Y/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/LKYHSZQFDNR7RSA7LHVLLIAQMVYCUGBG/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/FNA62Q767CFAFHBCDKYNPBMZWB7TWYVU/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/3N4NJ7FR4X4FPZUGNTQAPSTVB2HB2Y4A/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/HT7T2R4MQKLIF4ODV4BDLPARWFPCJ5CZ/
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231116-0013/

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